Liam Mulvaney’s Reviews > The Collected Poems > Status Update

A tragical poem about the abruptness of death and the fragility of life. We are simply at the mercy of chance.

It's incredible how much depth a short poem like A Patch of Old Snow has. The subject of snow in a corner, forgotten and dirty by time. Would you have noticed it while traipsing? Or does the poem inquire as to whether anyone notices you, alive, young, old, or dead and buried in a cemetery with a dirty tombstone? Scary shit. My deep thoughts on the loo.

Fans of William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy should digest these poems. They're so good. There are poems about meadows, pastures, nature, some mythology, and farming. However, as I turn pages, the poems seem to get longer and longer. And some of them include dialogue. Dialogues about marriage, tragedy, or death.

Poetry with dialogue... I like.